Fern Bluff Elementary School

Size

Fern Bluff Elementary School is the 17th largest of Round Rock ISD's 35 elementary schools; its 596 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 640 students, so Fern Bluff Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 5 with 115 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 40, against an average of 85 per grade. This year grade 5 has 46% more students than kindergarten (115 against 79). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 40 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 52.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Round Rock ISD (31.3%). Asian students are next, at 18.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

11.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 27.1% across Round Rock ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Fern Bluff Elementary School has 43.79 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 596 students would have about 40.3 teachers, so Fern Bluff Elementary School has 3.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Brushy Creek Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 22 elementary schools within 5 miles and 103 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.